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Wave speed = frequency x wavelength

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Calculate the speed of a wave that has a frequency of 50 Hz and a wavelength of 4 m.

Calculate the speed of a wave that has a frequency of 200 Hz and a wavelength of 50 m
Calculate the speed of a wave that has a frequency of 6 Hz and a wavelength of 2000 m
Calculate the speed of a wave that has a frequency of 5000 Hz and a wavelength of 20 m
Calculate the speed of a wave that has a frequency of 0.5 Hz and a wavelength of 0.2 m

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Calculate the speed of a wave that has a frequency of 5 kHz and a wavelength of 4 m
Calculate the speed of a wave that has a frequency of 5 Hz and a wavelength of 50 cm
Calculate the speed of a wave that has a frequency of 2 M Hz and a wavelength of 4 m
Calculate the speed of a wave that has a frequency of 4 M Hz and a wavelength of 8 cm
Calculate the speed of a wave that has a frequency of 3 G Hz and a wavelength of 4 mm

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Calculate the frequency of a sound wave of speed 330 m/s and wavelength 110 m.
Calculate the frequency of a water wave of speed 12 m/s and wavelength 6 m.
Calculate the frequency of a radio wave of speed 300 000 000 m/s and wavelength 1500 m.
Calculate the frequency of a sound wave of speed 1500 m/s and wavelength 6 km.
Calculate the frequency of a light wave of speed 300 000 000 m/s and wavelength 0.0005 mm.

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Calculate the wavelength of a sound wave of speed 330 m/s and frequency 55 Hz.
Calculate the wavelength of a water wave of speed 5 m/s and frequency 15 Hz.
Calculate the wavelength of a radio wave of speed 300 000 000 m/s and frequency 1 000 000 Hz.
Calculate the wavelength of a sound wave of speed 5000 m/s and frequency 2 kHz.
Calculate the wavelength of a light wave of speed 300 000 000 m/s and frequency 400 000 GHz.

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Calculate the speed of a wave that has period 0.2 seconds and wavelength 10 m
Calculate the speed of a wave that has period 5 seconds and wavelength 200 m
Calculate the speed of a wave that has period 0.025 seconds and wavelength 4 km
Calculate the speed of a sound wave that has period 0.01 seconds and wavelength 3 m.
Calculate the speed of a radio wave that has period 0.002 milliseconds and wavelength 10 km.

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Calculate the period of a wave that has speed 50 m/s and wavelength 10 m.
Calculate the period of a wave that has speed 400 m/s and wavelength 5 m.
Calculate the period of a wave that has speed 5 m/s and wavelength 20 m.
Calculate the period of a wave that has speed 2000 m/s and wavelength 4 km.
Calculate the period of a wave that has speed 300 000 000 m/s and wavelength 200 m.

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Calculate the speed of a wave that has a frequency of 60 Hz and a wavelength of 9 m.

Calculate the frequency of a sound wave of speed 330 m/s and wavelength 0.66 m.
Calculate the wavelength of a sound wave of speed 1500 m/s and frequency 250 Hz.
Calculate the speed of a wave that has period 0.04 seconds and wavelength 20 m
Calculate the period of a wave that has speed 600 m/s and wavelength 25 m

Equations to use:
wave speed = frequency x wavelength
frequency = wave speed / wavelength

wavelength = wave speed / frequency

frequency = 1 / period